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Bumper-to-bumper traffic, huge supermarket warehouses, outrageous utility bills — facts of every day life, right? Wrong! There is a better life. It’s simpler, healthier and more satisfying, and Mother…

Bumper-to-bumper traffic, huge supermarket warehouses, outrageous utility bills — facts of every day life, right? Wrong! There is a better life. It’s simpler, healthier and more satisfying, and Mother Earth News can help you live it. The Best of Mother Earth News: Original E-book Collection is a set of e-books featuring the best original content from the pages of the magazine.

Each e-book explores topics ranging from renewable energy advice and practical homesteading solutions to creative natural building methods. Sustainability experts and novices alike will find what they’ve been looking for in this unmatched collection. This comprehensive set includes more than 500 pages of tips, stories and diagrams – for one low price!

Order today and receive an addition e-book, How to Choose Wind Power for Your Home, Farm or Business, at no additional cost. The complete set includes:

A continuation of Lloyd Kahn's journeys into the creative processes of owner-built homes - their innovative techniques, use of sustainable materials, and essential dedication to the natural elements s…

A continuation of Lloyd Kahn's journeys into the creative processes of owner-built homes - their innovative techniques, use of sustainable materials, and essential dedication to the natural elements surrounding their designs - Builders of the Pacific Coast explores the aesthetics and techniques of three master builders in California, Washington state, and the rugged terrain of British Columbia.

The three featured craftsmen - Lloyd House, Bruce Atkey, and Sun Ray Kelley - combine imaginative architecture with innovative contexts: everything from unusual house-boats to sculptural dwellings made of driftwood are included. With stunning color and black-and-white photographs, as well as detailed black-and-white drawings of the homes, this collection of unique and progressive designs creates a template for a future filled with forward-thinking architecture.

Gardening A-Z brings you the best in vegetable gardening tips and instructions. With this handy, informative guide, you can choose the right varieties for your particular garden and discover new optio…

Gardening A-Z brings you the best in vegetable gardening tips and instructions. With this handy, informative guide, you can choose the right varieties for your particular garden and discover new options you’ve never considered before. Our expert and time-tested advice will help you grow healthy, beautiful vegetables, which includes:

Seven steps to growing superior asparagus spears

Sweet beets, one of the sweetest and most nutritious of all vegetables

Beautiful and bountiful broccoli

Grow your own corn with the freshest flavor

Start a cold-hardy crop of kale now for sweet soups and salads this winter

Discover which types of onions are the best choices for your garden and kitchen

Parsnips the ivory jewel of the root vegetables

Fresh peas from the garden are a sweet and nutritious treat

Peppers are easy to raise and as versatile as they are various

Dozens of different varieties of potatoes you can grow in your garden

You’ll also learn to control pests naturally, plant to improve your soil, and find out when and how to harvest for the best flavor. Also check out seed sources, preservation methods and seed saving techniques. Whether this is your first foray into gardening or you have decades of experience, you’re sure to find helpful tips and instructions in these pages. Happy gardening!

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Whether you're interested in starting a new garden or improving last year's bed, Mother Earth News' Gardening Made Easy E-Book has something for you. This new collection of articles guides you through the complete gardening process, from soil preparation to timing your harvest to get the best flavor for your efforts.

These helpful, informative articles come directly from our pages. We've combed through the Mother Earth News archive and put together the best pieces on everything from building fertile soil and finding and growing great seeds to choosing a tiller and building versatile, inexpensive hoop houses to improve your planting options and harvest.

Today's increased fuel costs continue to drive up the price of supermarket goods. News reports of the threats posed by chemical pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers to both people and the environment appear with increasing frequency. In the midst of conflicting reports and often confusing information, homegrown food is a simple, healthful alternative for you and your family. Good for your pocketbook, great for your health and easy on the environment, a backyard garden is a win-win solution to many of the obstacles faced in today's conscientious living.

Heat Your Home for Free is a collection of classic articles exclusively from Mother Earth News that shows how simple solar systems can heat your home, garage, shop, barn, commercial building — just ab…

Heat Your Home for Free is a collection of classic articles exclusively from Mother Earth News that shows how simple solar systems can heat your home, garage, shop, barn, commercial building — just about any structure with a south-facing wall. The heat comes from solar energy, and it’s free. Best of all, this e-handbook shows how you can design, build and install solar heating systems yourself! We’ve compiled our best articles on do-it-yourself solar heating, from the early days of the magazine right up to the present.

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If you want to build an environmentally friendly house, garage or barn from natural materials, this is the ultimate guide for you. Explore the pros and cons of building with straw, logs, cordwood, earth and local lumber. Learn how to manage local building codes and inspections. And find out how you can design any home to take advantage solar heat and natural cooling.

Plus, we’ve included extra articles on green roofing options, used building materials and choosing the perfect plaster.

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The Herb Companion is proud to introduce an extraordinary new collection of e-books from the publisher of Herbs for Health. Each e-book features a digital collection of articles containing everything you need to know to bring the power of herbs into your life, safely and effectively. Learn the secrets to healthy weight-loss; discover how to strengthen your immune system naturally; and more. Finally Herbs for Health's most helpful and informative articles can be purchased together in these easy-to-navigate e-books.

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Discover the wonders of wind power! With growing concerns about climate change, pollution and the rising costs of fossil fuels, today there's more demand for clean, renewable energy than ever before. Wind power has enormous potential to meet that need, but what does that mean to you and your community?

Wondering what it would cost to put a turbine on your property? This guide tells you how to find out. Want to learn more about how communities can produce their own clean, price-stable power? This guide explains the great potential of local wind projects. How to Choose Wind Power will help you understand how wind turbines can be good choices for homeowners, farmers, small businesses and rural communities.

Learn from detailed case studies and explanations of issues such as net metering, battery storage, types of turbines, concerns about noise, impact on wildlife and more. Find out how to evaluate your wind resource and what factors make a wind project successful.

Mother Earth News has been writing about renewable energy for more than 30 years. Our brand new, completely up-to-date guide was developed in partnership with the International Center for Appropriate and Sustainable Technology. This guide will help you understand the big picture of wind power, and the potential of wind projects big and small as a sustainable source of energy. Order your copy and start learning more about wind power today!

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IMPORTANT NOTICE ABOUT THIS PRODUCT: The software on this version of Mother Earth News 101 DIY Projects CD, Vol. 1, triggers a security breech when updating to version 7 or higher of Java. While an internet connection is not required to access the content on this CD, it does require an internet browser with Java for viewing the files. As a result of the security breech, the files on this CD cannot be viewed once Java has been updated to version 7 or higher.

We've assembled the 101 most-read DIY projects based on website traffic, and now we're making them available to you in an easy-to-use CD-ROM format, just like our popular Mother Earth News Archive on CD-ROM.

Selected from nearly 40 years of material, this collection provides enough fun, rewarding projects to keep you busy every single weekend for a full year!

This premium collection is delivered in a simple, searchable CD-ROM format, with image galleries and fully printable articles! No Internet connection required.

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This CD is designed to run on PC and Mac platforms.

You will need one of the following setups to run this CD:

With an IBM-compatible computer: Microsoft® Windows 98 SE (Second Edition) or newer; with Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5 or newer. You also will need Java Virtual Machine (VM) version 1.3 (free download from www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp) or newer browser plug-in with Java enabled on your browser and computer.

With an Apple Computer: Mac OS X with Safari 3.2.525.27.1 or newer and Java. Use the Software Update feature (available on the Apple menu) to check that you have the most up-to-date version of Java for your Mac.

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In a tight economy, this book offers clear financial benefits by helping homeowners immediately cut their utility bills. Many of these smaller home improvements require only a modest investment, and g…

In a tight economy, this book offers clear financial benefits by helping homeowners immediately cut their utility bills. Many of these smaller home improvements require only a modest investment, and give readers an edge when they sell their homes: Buyers are looking for energy efficiency, and they are also tuned into green health and environmental concerns.

The book's projects include quick and easy, low- or no-cost tasks — like insulating a water heater, sealing foundation cracks or painting with insulating paint — as well as bigger-ticket items, such as installing a new energy-efficient heating system, windows or green flooring. The more than 65 "Go Green" tips highlighted throughout the book give readers ideas to make their homes and lifestyles greener.